Britain finished paying off Lend-Lease in 2006.

Though I don't think the Netanyahu government is stupid enough to put this plan into action, it does seem to me a recipe for backlash. If there's one lobby that rivals the pervasiveness of the Israel lobby it's the weapons manufacturers. If they start losing money because some right-wing government in Israel is refusing to buy American weapons for their assorted killing needs, it seems very likely they'll turn on that government and have the US start pressuring for a return to the "good ol' days" of Kadima when Israeli wars were fought almost exclusively with American-made weaponry.

we're working on getting some new maps (especially for Pakistan), right now we've been settling for the public domain stuff lifted from the CIA World Factbook. Buner, Mingora, etc. are roughly due north of Islamabad though.

we're still getting our sealegs with the comment section, so to speak.